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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Open Access Week Banner

October 8, 2010 at 10am to October 31, 2010 at 7pm – University Library Open Access Week Banner - University Library Organized by Lorre Smith | Type: exhibit
Open Access Week - Library Exhibits

October 11, 2010 at 10am to October 29, 2010 at 7pm – University at Albany, Albany, New York University Library and Science Library exhibits will help raise awareness of Open Access Week and fundamental information regarding open acess to scholarly research. Organized by Lorre Smith | Type: exhibit
OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders

October 15, 2010 at 6pm to October 25, 2010 at 7pm – Global OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders University of Southampton/EPrints is launching a week-long Open Access Mandate Adoption Challenge for OA Week. On October 18, the first da… Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: oa mandate sweepstakes
Scholarly output in health sciences: publication process and open access

October 18, 2010 to October 20, 2010 – Rome This event is organized within the European Porject NECOBELAC with the objective to create awareness in scientific writing and open access publication and at the same time promote cooperaton between… Organized by Paola De Castro | Type: training, for, trainers
Open Access Week at the University of Minnesota

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities The University of Minnesota Libraries will be hosting a series of events throughout the week, on both the Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses. We will offer two sessions of hands-on workshops for gradu… Organized by Nancy Sims | Type: whirlwind, workshop, outreach, week
Open Access Week at Texas A&M

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas A university presidential proclamation will kick off Texas A&M's week-long celebration of Open Access Week. The campus community can drop by the OA Cafe (information booth) to learn more about op… Organized by Texas A&M Libraries | Type: information, booth, workshop, giveaways
Open Access Week at the University of Sussex

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Brighton, UK The Library is holding a number of events, including lunchtime seminars for researchers, a BioMed Central workshop on getting research published for early career researchers, and an event for staff w… Organized by Joanna Ball | Type: seminars, workshop
University of Johannesburg Open Access Week

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Auckland Park, University of Johannesburg Check programme of events at: http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Library/Services/Institutional%20Repository/Pages/OpenAccess.aspx Organized by Lazarus Matizirofa | Type: advocacy/conference
Open Access Week at University of Puget Sound

October 18, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound celebrates Open Access Week with displays, t-shirt giveaways, and newly launched online content & book marks! Visit the library to learn more about Open Access at Puget… Organized by Collins Library | Type: open, access, week
International Open Access Week at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – University of Fribourg and BCU Fribourg Poster sessions to induce faculty members to ask questions on topics around open access.Sessions de posters pour encourager les collaboratrices et collaborateurs scientifiques à se renseigner sur le… Organized by | Type: oa, week
Open Access Week feature on University of New Brunswick Libraries website

October 18, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – UNB Libraries The University of New Brunswick libraries will have a feature on their website talking about Open Access Week, Open Access, and linking to some Open Access Resources that the library highlights. Ther… Organized by Kathleen Gadd, David Ross, Cora Higgins | Type: awareness
OA Week at the University of Pardubice

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Pardubice The University library has prepared five seminars to present the advantages of OA. Organized by Lucie Melicharová | Type: seminar
Open Access Week at Johns Hopkins University

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University will host several activities to promote Open Access Week, October 18-22, 2010. Kicking off the week will be a talk by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC on the t… Organized by Johns Hopkins Scholarly Communications Group | Type: open, access, week, activities
OA Week 2010 activities at the University of Calgary

October 18, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources (LCR) at the University of Calgary has a fulsome set of events planned for OA Week 2010. Here are some of the main activities: *On Wednesday, October 20, Jean-Claude… Organized by Andrew Waller | Type: presentations, and, displays
OA Mandate Adoption Challenge for Institutions and Funders

October 18, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Global This is a duplicate site. Please click here for the OA Mandate Challenge Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: oa mandate sweepstakes
Open Access Week at Dartmouth College

October 18, 2010 at 8am to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – Library Events are listed here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/schcomm/OAWeek2010.html Organized by Barbara DeFelice | Type: activities, all, week
Open Access Week at UC Davis

October 18, 2010 at 10am to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis Libraries are sponsoring a speaker series for OA Week 2010. These inspiring lectures are open to all. The talks are: * Catherine Mitchell and Patricia Cruse, Cali… Organized by Phoebe Ayers | Type: lectures
University Libraries Promotes OA Literacy!

October 18, 2010 at 10am to October 22, 2010 at 5pm – George Mason University: Fenwick, Johnson Center, Arlington, & Mercer libraries Throughout Open Access Week, George Mason University librarians will be sharing literature and distributing swag in four libraries on three campuses to promote OA literacy. Students, faculty and staf… Organized by Claudia Holland | Type: education, information
Science 2.0 – practical aspects of the internet revolution

October 18, 2010 at 10am to November 8, 2010 at 7pm – Hall E of Instytutu Biochemii i Biofizyki PAN Part 1 – communication, collaboration, visibility New communications channels (blogs, microblogs, aggregators, virtual conferences and poster sessions) and examples of successful applying in science… Organized by Paweł Szczęsny | Type: seminar
OER Foundation Open Access Week Activities

October 18, 2010 at 11am to October 22, 2010 at 1pm – Online The Open Education Resource Foundation, will be hosting a series of open webinar sessions to to promote the adoption and implementation of open access resources to support teaching, learning and rese… Organized by OER Foundation | Type: open, webinar, series
Open Access Week in Poland

October 18, 2010 at 12pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – Lecture halls Link to website of Polish activities: 1. Samorząd Doktorantów Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN has opened new web page about open access model and organized on October 10 the first semina… Organized by Bożena Bednarek-Michalska | Type: education
Open Access Week at Athabasca University

October 18, 2010 at 12pm to October 22, 2010 at 1pm – Online Athabasca University Open Access Week, Oct 18-22, 2010. Please come and celebrate the AU Open Access week with us. This online event will take place between October 18 and 22, 2010. The objective o… Organized by Colin Elliott | Type: webcasts
Open Access Week at Syracuse University

October 18, 2010 at 12:30pm to October 22, 2010 at 2pm – E.S. Bird Library, Syracuse University Syracuse University Library is hosting several events during OA Week. These center around a Monday October 18 Kick-Off Party for the university's newly launched open access database SURFACE http://su… Organized by Syracuse University Library (Charlotte Hess - Associate Dean for Research Collections and Scholarly Communication) | Type: celebration, workshop, launch, ir
Semana del Acceso Abierto a la Información 2010

October 18, 2010 at 2pm to October 22, 2010 at 9pm – Perú Organized by Open Access Peru | Type: conferences, and, workshop
Open Access Week at JKUAT

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – JKUAT Main campus - Juja The JKUAT library is planning a series of activities geared towards creating sensitization and awareness of the open access movement and open access information resources during this week. Some of th… Organized by Jomo Kenyatta University Library | Type: awareness
Semana Acceso Abierto en la Biblioteca de la Facultad Humanidades Universidad La Plata, Argentina

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – La Plata, Argentina BIBHUMA adhiere a esta iniciativa desde la creación del repositorio institucional Memoria Académica en 2006, y ya el año pasado organizamos diversas actividades relacionadas con la promoción del Acce… Organized by Biblioteca-FaHCE-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina | Type: oa, week, event
EPrints celebrates its 10th birthday during OA Week

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – Southampton UK EPrints, the first software that made it possible for institutions to create repositories in which to self-archive their research papers online, celebrates its 10th birthday during Open Access Week.… Organized by Stevan Harnad | Type: eprints 10th birthday
Open Access Events at University of Toronto

October 18, 2010 at 6pm to October 21, 2010 at 7pm – Toronto, Canada A series of events on Open Access organized by the University of Toronto Libraries. Organized by University of Toronto Libraries | Type: seminars, and, lectures
Supporting the Digital humanities SDH 2010 19-20 Oct Vienna

October 19, 2010 to October 21, 2010 – Technical university Vienna Togheter with CLARIN, DARIAH is organising the SDH 2010 conference, there will be a special session on Open Access on Wednesday 20 October from 14h to 15h30. Organized by Milena Piccoli | Type: international, conference
Open Access Week @ Universidade Fernando Pessoa (Portugal)

October 19, 2010 to October 21, 2010 – Porto, Portugal Open Access Week @ Universidade Fernando Pessoa will include conferences and a workshop on OA that will take place between October 18th-22nd 2010. Organized by Ana Moutinho & Carla Sousa | Type: conference, workshop
3m10p: a research performance

October 19, 2010 to December 1, 2010 – Temple University Japan Campus 3m10p is a research project in which 10 journal articles are written collaboratively, openly, on the web. Implemented as part of a university class on the Japan campus of Temple University. Join the… Organized by JJ Aucouturier | Type: workshop, class, web, project, performance
Bargaining for Better Publication Agreements: Copyright Workshops

October 19, 2010 at 10am to October 22, 2010 at 10am – Multiple sessions. See "Description" The detailed terms of your agreements for publication of books, articles, and any other work have an immediate and direct effect on the usefulness and availability of your own scholarship, and the te… Organized by Nicole Bufanio | Type: workshop
Open Access Perú 2010

October 20, 2010 to October 22, 2010 – Lima 3 days presentations (some online) from - Miguel Angel Mardero Arellano (IBICT, Brazil) - Gustavo Fischman (Public Knowledge Project) - Remedios Melero (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científica… Organized by Open Access Perú info@openaccessperu.org | Type: oa, week
Open Access Week at RECOLECTA, the open access door to Spanish research outputs

October 20, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Spain RECOLECTA presents the activities that will be organized in Spain throughout the week, Organized by RECOLECTA | Type: conferences, workshops, round, tables, and, more....
Videoconferencia regional Acceso Abierto en Latinoamerica

October 20, 2010 from 9am to 11am – Latinoamerica Se presentaran ponencias tratando temas como: Políticas para promover y facilitar el AA a nivel nacional e institucional Diseño, planificación, implementación y gestión de un repositorio instituciona… Organized by Red-CLARA | Type: videoconferencia
La comunicazione scientifica in Europa tra registrazione, accesso, impatto e valutazione. Quale ruolo per l'Open Access?

October 20, 2010 from 9am to 2pm – Rome (Italy) CASPUR and La Sapienza University of Rome organize and event on CRIS and their relation with open archives. Organized by CASPUR, Sapienza Università di Roma | Type: workshop
Open Access Journal Launch

October 20, 2010 from 10am to 11am – MHE Boardroom, Oakes Field Campus The College of The Bahamas will publish volume 16 of its online, open access scholarly journal, the International Journal of Bahamian Studies. Organized by Virginia Ballance | Type: on-line, journal, launch
Open Access Publishing in Health

October 20, 2010 from 11am to 1pm – HSE EA Offices, Adelaide Road Dublin 2. “Introduction to Open Access and BioMed. How institutions can assist author publications and the growth of OA. Simon Neilson BioMed Central (U.K, Ireland, Norway, Denmark & Middle East Sales Exe… Organized by Aoife Lawton | Type: seminar
Open Access Week: Information session and awareness raising

October 20, 2010 from 12pm to 2pm – NMIT Library, Greensborough, VIC 3008 Join NMIT Librarians (Greensborough campus) for an informal information session to raise awareness about Open Access Week and learn how open access is transforming scholarly communications. Programme… Organized by Sigi Jottkandt and David Bradley | Type: information, session
Your Intellectual Property is Valuable: Retain Your Journal Article Copyright

October 20, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – Amargosa Room This presentation will delineate copyright tools to retain copyright for open access and other journal article use advantages. Organized by Marianne Buehler, Urban Sustainability Librarian | Type: presentation
The Open Access Initiative at Concordia: What Exactly Is It?

October 20, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – Concordia H-763, Montreal As part of Open Access Week at Concordia University in Montreal, Gerald Beasley -- Concordia University Librarian and member of the Advisory Board of the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook… Organized by Dorothy Ogonovsky | Type: explaining concordia oa mandate
Building Business Models for Open Access Academic Journals

October 20, 2010 from 12:30pm to 2pm – Butler Library, Room 523 It is important that librarians and journal editors and authors understand both the challenges and choices that shape the development of business models for open access journals and campus-based publ… Organized by Nicole Bufanio | Type: workshop
Publishing for the 21st Century: Open Access for Greater Impact

October 20, 2010 from 1pm to 4:30pm – University of Florida Open access (OA) is free-of-charge, permanent, web-based access to online scholarly publications. OA gives increased visibility to research because the publication process is fast, broadly and freely… Organized by University of Florida - Open Access Task Force | Type: conference
"Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Authors Rights in the Context of Open Access"

October 20, 2010 from 1pm to 3pm – Florida State University - Oglesby Union 311C Faye Jones (FSU College of Law) and David Orozco (FSU College of Business) will discuss copyright, author's rights, and intellectual property. Organized by Gloria Colvin | Type: presentations
Open Scholarship Opens Minds

October 20, 2010 from 1:30pm to 3pm – George Mason University, Meese Conference Room, Mason Hall Join us to hear Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, talk about higher education OA policies, faculty publishing choices, open courseware, and access to digi… Organized by University Libraries Scholarly Communications Team | Type: panel, keynote
Copyright 101 for Authors: Publication Agreements and Open Sharing.

October 20, 2010 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm – University of Kansas' Center for Digital Scholarship Encore presentation of "Copyright 101 for Authors: Publication Agreements and Open Sharing, with Town Peterson, University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and senior curat… Organized by Ada Emmett | Type: encore, presentation
Open Access disseminated from Japan

October 20, 2010 from 1:30pm to 5pm – National Institute of Informatics Outline: From October 18 to 24, events for promoting open access will be held throughout the world. The 6th SPARC Japan Seminar is titled "Open Access disseminated from Japan," and we wish that it wi… Organized by National Institute of Informatics / SPARC Japan | Type: workshop
Launch of RIAN: Open Access To Irish Research

October 20, 2010 from 1:30pm to 4pm – The Convention Centre, Dublin RIAN is Ireland's Open Access Research Portal. It harvests content from Open Access institutional repositories in all seven Irish universities and from Dublin Institute of technology. It is the outco… Organized by Irish Universities Association | Type: launch
Open Access for Earth & Climate Scientists

October 20, 2010 at 2pm to October 21, 2010 at 6pm – Brest, France & globally online The training aims to make climate-related research & data more transparent and accessible to society & stakeholders. Our strategy is to focus on the real open access carrots for authors: visi… Organized by Ivo Grigorov (CNRS), Catherine Bertignac (UBO), Dominique Gac (UBO)) | Type: training, webinars
University of Stellenbosch

October 20, 2010 from 2pm to 6pm – South Africa 1. Signing the Berlin Declaration: http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html 2. Launching institutional repository: http://scholar.sun.ac.za 3. Video stream all presentations live via… Organized by Ina Smith | Type: seminar
Maximize the impact of your research!

October 20, 2010 from 3pm to 5pm – Otaru University of Commerce, Japan A lecture meeting celebrating the 3rd anniversary of Otaru University of Commerce Repository. Organized by Otaru University of Commerce Library | Type: lecture_meeting
Science is open: an introduction to open access

October 20, 2010 from 3pm to 3:30pm – online The Helmholtz Open Access Project will offer a free “webinar” for Ph.D. students of the Helmholtz Association. Interested Helmholtz Ph.D. students are invited to participate in an introductory web se… Organized by Paul Schultze-Motel | Type: seminar, webinar
Publishing for Global Impact

October 20, 2010 from 3:30pm to 5pm – Purdue University Stewart Center, Room 311 Event Series: Open Access Week at Purdue University Panelists: * Peg Ertmer, College of Education, editor, Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning * Zygmunt Pyzlo, Department of Psycholog… Organized by Purdue University Libraries | Type: panel, discussion
Open Access Week (and beyond) and UC Berkeley

October 20, 2010 at 4pm to November 4, 2010 at 5pm – University of California, Berkeley We're planning several events over the next three weeks. Librarians will lead workshops called "Publish Smart, Maximize Impact;" Catherine Nancarrow will discuss last summer's congressional hearings… Organized by Margaret Phillips | Type: workshops, lectures
University of Calgary - Qatar

October 20, 2010 from 5pm to 9pm – University of Calgary - Qatar Auditorium The University of Calgary - Qatar (UCQ) will be hosting two presentations on Wednesday, October 20th. We will have two guest speakers - Andrew Waller, Open Access Librarian from the University of Cal… Organized by Keltie Ross | Type: open, access, presentation
Cafe: talk about "Open Access"

October 20, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm – Osaka University: Student Commons An open place for talk about open access (OA) will be held by Osaka University Library, collaborating with the Communication Design Center (CSCD). There are several aspects in OA. Library will offer… Organized by Ikuko TSUCHIDE | Type: cafe, discussion
Open Access in the Arts & Teaching

October 20, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm – Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library, CUNY Performance and panelists including Doug Geers (BC/Music), Michael Mandiberg (CSI/Media Culture) and Nina Paley (http://www.ninapaley.com); full screening of Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues to foll… Organized by Beth Evans | Type: program
Open Access. Good Practices in Latin American projects

October 20, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – web Event in Spanish with presentations about good practices for institutional repositories development, national cooperation among IR, initiatives in Latin America Organized by red CLARA-CONACYT(Chile)-Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)-Ministerio de Ciencia,Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (Argentina)-CLACSO (América Latina) -CONCYTEC (Perú)-Universidad Nacional Agraria (Perú)- Corte Constitucional de Ecuador | Type: oa, week, event
"Acceso Abierto: ¿Qué aporta a la actividad científica?"

October 20, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – Madrid - Spain Mesa redonda "Acceso Abierto: ¿Qué aporta a la actividad científica?" La mesa redonda se celebrará el miércoles 20 de octubre a las 17 horas y se retransmitirá en directo en formato webcast. El víd… Organized by proyecto "e-ciencia" del Consorcio Madroño (Consorcio de Bibliotecas de las Universidades Públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid y el CSIC) | Type: oa, week, event
Open Access for Students and Young Researchers

October 20, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm – Arab Academy for Science and Technology Introducing open access to students and young researchers. Organized by Mandy Taha | Type: seminar, presentation
Ventajas de escribir en publicaciones de acceso libre

October 20, 2010 at 6pm to October 22, 2010 at 7pm – Medellin - Colombia el Sistema de Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Antioquia, a través del programa de Formación de Usuarios, ha organizado un evento "Ventajas de escribir en publicaciones de acceso abierto" que se cent… Organized by Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia | Type: oa, week, event
Dynamic Map of Open Access Deposits Worldwide

October 20, 2010 at 6pm to October 24, 2010 at 7pm – Southampton UK EPrints, ROAR and U. Southampton's Tim Brody and Les Carr have created a continuously updating dynamic map of recent OA Repository deposits worldwide, sampled minute by minute at: http://roar.eprint… Organized by http://www.openaccessweek.org/profile/LesCarr | Type: sampling oa deposits worlwide